Steve Freeman

Just turned up at OT2004. Fellow attendees with blogs that I know of:

Martin Fowler
Joe Walnes
Nat Pryce
James Roberston

Cute lines

Lisp is the Burgess Shale of computation. Full of unusual byways of software evolution that never quite made the mainstream but were just as valid as the winners.

Duncan McGregor accidentally observed that

Plans rarely survive contact with the Customer […]

Last week Tim Mackinnon, Nat Pryce, Joe Walnes and I pulled out all the stops to get a paper written in time for OOPSLA. The only way we could make it was to work overnight on Friday and we finally sent it in at about 5:00 Saturday morning (CyberChair runs on Samoan time, so a […]

Martin Fowler writes about Software Development Attitudes, distinguishing between Directers and Enablers. That links nicely with something Ward Cunningham said about problems vs. difficulties.

Roy Disney speaking to Disney Shareholders on 3rd March 2004 and quoted here
shows that he understands the reality of inellectual work. I’ve worked at too many places that feel like this, and too few that don’t.

In this interview, Ward Cunningham talks about The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work. He’s simply right.

In this interview with Bertrand Meyer on Artima, Bertrand Meyer hopes that Test-Driven Development is like Design By Contract. Well, yes and no.